A Preface to Paradise Lost

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A Preface to Paradise Lost is one of C. S. Lewis's most famous scholarly works. Written with the intent of being read before someone embarks on a study of John Milton's Paradise Lost, it was an influence during Lewis' writing of the science-fiction novel Perelandra.

v • d • e Works by C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) · Prince Caspian (1951) · The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) · The Silver Chair (1953) · The Horse and His Boy (1954) · The Magician's Nephew (1955) · The Last Battle (1956) Space Trilogy Out of the Silent Planet (1938) · Perelandra (1943) · That Hideous Strength (1946) Other fiction The Pilgrim's Regress (1933) · The Screwtape Letters (1942) · The Great Divorce (1945) · Till We Have Faces (1956) · Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1961) · Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964) · The Dark Tower (1977) · Boxen (1985) Poetry Spirits in Bondage (1919) · Dymer (1926) · Narrative Poems (1969) · The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (1994) Non-fiction The Allegory of Love (1936) · Rehabilitations and other essays (1939) · The Personal Heresy (1939) · The Problem of Pain (1940) · A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942) · The Abolition of Man (1943) · Beyond Personality (1944) · Miracles (1947) · Arthurian Torso (1948) · Mere Christianity (1952) · English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954) · Major British Writers, Vol I (1954) · Surprised by Joy (1955) · De Descriptione Temporum. An Inaugural Lecture (1955) · Reflections on the Psalms (1958) · The Four Loves (1960) · Studies in Words (1960) · An Experiment in Criticism (1961) · A Grief Observed (1961) · They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962) · Selections from Layamon's Brut (1963) · Prayer: Letters to Malcolm (1964) · The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964) · Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966) · Spenser's Images of Life (1967) · Letters to an American Lady (1967) · Christian Reflections (1967) · Selected Literary Essays (1969) · God in the Dock (2 volumes) (1970-1971) · Of Other Worlds (1982) · The Business Of Heaven (1984) · Present Concerns (1986) · All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993) · Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000) · Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000) Collected Letters Volume I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000) · Volume II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004) · Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)